Early April Garden Tour and Plans 2024

Tour of a small garden in Denmark.
Early April.
Zone 7.

hello welcome to my garden here in Denmark on this rather windy day the garden is located in a Zone 7 equivalent and spring has arrived it’s the very beginning of April and the garden is looking great today’s tour of the garden will be a little bit different because I will focus a little bit on the garden plans that I have for this year I have of course been planning during winter and one of the plans is that I want to reestablish some of the lawn up here as you can see I don’t have a lot of lawn I have a lot of paths instead I have this uh rather long grass path running along uh in the garden and on this side up here close to the house there’s also grass but that is going to be turned into a Terrace ultimately so hence since there’s grass on both sides up here I think this will be the ideal spot to reestablish the lawn and yeah I’m saying reestablish because all of this used to be lawn everything within the garden here used to be lawn also there wasn’t a hedge here when I moved in so I’ve basically established everything there was grass here and what I’m going to do is this middle part of this uh the Border over here I’m going to cut it off just around here and then I’m going to reestablish the grass and I think spring is the ideal time to do this even though the bulbs don’t like to be moved in Spring at least I can see where they are and yeah there are quite a lot of bulbs in here so that will require a lot of time to get those out and basically I will move them to a place yeah I also have a cat oh you shouldn’t do that bad cat yeah it’s hard to be cat oh yeah it’s a good cat yeah yeah yeah yeah good cat and um yeah so this will become grass again it was looking really really good last year so it’s not that I uh dislike this uh border but I I do want some grass again I do want a lawn and hence that’s going to be done also you’ll notice that I’ve moved the benches of the lawn and that’s just to see just to get an idea of how will it look when there’s grass between those and I think I’m going to ultimately well not this year but perhaps next year establish a hard uh pavement underneath these benches and have them in the Border because if I have a lawn here and also with with these paths ultimately I’m going to have a robot uh to uh to mow them yeah let’s move along as you can see I’ve also cleaned up the borders a lot I’m not done with it yet though also I still need to clean out uh the PT once more I have cleaned it out once this year but uh due to the Hedge losing all of it leaves right now it’s the old Le from last year um it has gradually filled up again so I will have to clean it out and my guess is I’ll probably have to clean it out at least a couple of times extra up here I still have some daffodils in most of my borders the daffodils have been eaten by something called a daffodil bfly and uh yeah it has been rather devastating my guess is I might have got a bad batch or perhaps because it wasn’t an established Garden these bulp flies had easy access to the to the early the first uh daffodils I established but it’s a guess I don’t know also here this is a blood route and it’s a double blood route I think it’s called Multiplex I’m going to put the name in for that one and I do have that in multiple places throughout the garden also a nice looking helbor and in there the early tulips have started blooming I know that in uh I believe in the UK at least uh of the parts where I uh watch some Garden videos I think it’s uh ahead um most of the normal tulips will have started blooming there but here uh not yet and yeah I believe most of Britain is Zone 8 zone 9 and uh um here I’m in uh what should be well close to a Zone 7 uh would be my guess um we don’t really use zones here so yeah it’s a a bit of a guess in Denmark we basically they sell what can grow in Denmark right so uh we don’t have a a huge amount of use for any zones again uh this is a combination of some Woodland an enemies and uh and this uh rot and that is a really nice combination plus the undergrowth I believe that is an edible uh Woodland plant um I can uh I can look up the name and one blue Woodland an enemy as well oh yeah and this border over here that I’m going to remove I think one of the things that I’m going to do and I’m going to do that very soon is that I will remove most of the flower uh bulb heads you know something like this this an alium Globe Master really nice looking plant but what I’m going to do is I’m going to do like this and that’s just to make it conserve its energy because when I move it it’s not going to flower anyways because I’m going to move it uh while it’s uh in leaf and uh just before the flowering and uh I’ve done so before and uh they will expend a lot of energy on that and basically uh my is they will lose their leaves as well but at least like this it will conserve some energy for next year so I’m going to put my money into next year’s Bloom instead and yeah up there there’s an apple tree in the Border there’s a rose here and there’s a hue here as well and those are going to get moved uh those that watched the video last year will remember I had a rose over there I did have to prioritize do some very hard prioriti and that one is uh is gone also I had a rose over there that one is gone as well and I had a rose where close to where the bench is now and that one is also gone so I made some really really hard decisions here and I’m just going to I I am going to need some extra space for some of these and I do have an idea of what to do but uh but let’s see I am looking forward to all of these tulips you can see they are slowly starting to bloom but there’s a lot of tulips here and I have I have a lot of tulips throughout the garden and I think I can uh thank the cat for that because we have rodents here that will basically eat the tulip bulbs I’m close to a stream so can’t remember what they call in uh in English is it wols or something like that but uh they will basically uh eat my tulips if it wasn’t for the cat so uh and the cat it’s its favorite food basically it really likes those so yeah that’s how life is right you uh you eat and uh and hopefully the cat doesn’t get eaten by anything yellow Woodland and enemies these I got from my mother they are going to look really great and also again with some white Woodland and enemies I do like Woodland and enemies and over on this side is where I have this um what’s it called witch hazel it looked really great uh bit over a month ago um and again some blue Woodland and enemies they are Woodland and enemies who can recognize that on the leaves um and with the blood root again it’s a double I did purchase a single uh variety a couple of years ago but I’ve not yet been able to spot that one perhaps it’s that really really weak looking one over there I got those in really bad quality uh the the multiplex I got from my mother and uh I believe she got them from a plant market and she gave me a really generous uh amount of those and I’ve been multiplying them throughout the years since I got them but yeah I did get a really really good uh specimen of those so that was a really nice helar over here I think this is one of my best looking helar and I don’t know the variety and I received this one from my mother I think she intended to give me a really black one but ironically this one has become my best looking Helo even though it wasn’t the right one she has some really great looking helos and an oldfashioned helbor this one I think originally my grandmother had those in her garden and I got this one from my mother’s gun I believe these an enemies are called I don’t know if they are directly translated from Danish we call them Balan and enemies I don’t know if that is the correct name for them in English and you can see there’s a blue one in there also plants that I have here and that I like I know some people perhaps don’t like them is I have quite a lot of I believe they’re called glory of the snow and this one is a purple variety I have them in blues as well I believe the blue ones flowed a little bit earlier than this one perhaps they will flower at the same uh time next year since these are newly established pulps you never really know okay so now we arrive where I have additional planning going on let’s just move up to the house just move up here you’ll notice I have some windows here right these are the windows to my main living room and when you look directly out of these windows if you approach them this is basically the side that you met with right this is where I had some uh tops uh and you can see I have a project going on here and what I want to do you know I will put in some extra grass up in that part so that that turns into sort of a small lawn and down here I am going to basically instead of having this view out of my window what I want is let’s side step a little bit is something more like this view out of my window when I look straight out the window right so basically the garden hose right now indicates where I’m going to remove the grass and I’m basically going to put it in right over here so I’m going to move it about one and a half meter to the side and that is going to be a lot of work yeah and I moved the blueberries and I did move them to this corner down here instead and that is because when I look out the window instead of looking into a blueberry border and also from this bench right here I will uh be looking into a perennial uh border instead with some uh drops at the back yeah I believe that was uh it for this video thank you for watching bye-bye